Gorefest
| Gorefest | |
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 Gorefest (2007) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Death Metal , Death 'n' Roll |
| founding | 1989, 2004 |
| resolution | 2000, 2009 |
| Website | myspace.com/gorefest |
| Founding members | |
| Frank Harthoorn | |
| Jan Chris de Koeyer | |
guitar |
Alex Van Schaik (until 1991) |
| Marc Hoogedoorn (until 1991) | |
| Last occupation | |
guitar |
Frank Harthoorn |
Vocals, bass |
Jan Chris de Koeyer |
guitar |
Boudewijn Vincent Bonebakker (since 1991) |
Drums |
Ed Warby (since 1991) |
Gorefest (blood orgy) was a Dutch death metal band.
history
Gorefest was founded in 1989 by bassist and singer Jan-Chris de Koeyer and guitarist Frank Harthoorn. The music of Gorefest was pure death metal in the early days and switched to death-'n'-roll direction with the album Soul Survivor (1996) and especially Chapter 13 (1998) . That is, the traditional death metal elements were combined with elements of hard rock .
The strong Carcass influence should be mentioned about their Death Metal phase , which is particularly evident in the textual respect and is often featured on the debut album Mindloss (1991) (titles such as “Putrid stench of human remains” or “Tangled in gore ”or the band name etc.). The following album, False , released in 1993 , dealt lyrically with socially and socially critical aspects. False is Gorefest's reference work and impresses with its professional sound and high technical level, in which the two new band members Boudewijn Bonebakker (lead guitar) and drummer Ed Warby are involved.
After the release of False , Gorefest went on tour called Insanity Tour through European cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Sweden, Spain, and the Czech Republic, opening up for Deicide and Atrocity . A bomb detonated during Gorefest's appearance on November 25, 1992 at Fryshuset in Stockholm . However, there was no personal injury. The perpetrators are suspected to be either militant animal rights activists who wanted to protest against the bloody stage show by the band Deicide and the tendencies to torture and kill animals claimed by its singer Glen Benton , or fanatical black metal supporters who wanted to attack Gorefest as a politically correct band . Gorefest had received death threats beforehand and had to leave the city with a police escort after the incident. The highlight of this tour is a performance at Dynamo Open Air in Eindhoven. The tour continued in North America, with the group Death , and concluded in Mexico City.
Their third album Erase differs more from the classic death metal sound, is more in the middle tempo and groove area and for the first time also has dark, undistorted guitar chords like in the piece Goddess in Black . The following album Soul Survivor heralded, as mentioned at the beginning, Gorefest's more commercial rock phase. The band had the opportunity to place a professional video clip on the title Freedom in the airplay of the rock programs. In addition, the band's artistic freedom has been expanded. Instruments that are untypical for classical Death Metal, such as the Hammond organ or piano sounds, demonstrate the band's style-changing side. Bonebakker's guitar solos are noticeably refined by blues rock scales and de Koeijer's lyrics become more personal and more personal.
The course of Death 'n' Roll has been stepped up to Chapter 13 . The songwriting shows parallels to classic hard rock groups like AC / DC , as the songs are structured more straightforward. De Koeijer's vocals are also noticeable, expanding his very deep, bassy and guttural vocals and also using the normal vocal part for songs like “FS 2000” or “Broken Wing”. Although this album drove the band's career - so they had the opportunity to appear as a support act for Judas Priest - Gorefest indirectly said goodbye to the fans of the first hour, who no longer associated as much with the band's sound as they did with death metal -Material, and on the other hand a short time later also (for the time being) from the music world. The split of the band resulted from a dispute between the singer and the lead guitarist.
In 2004, surprisingly, the reunification was announced and festival appearances were also completed in the summer . In 2005 Gorefest's comeback album “La Muerte” was released, which is again strongly oriented towards the phase from 1992 to 1994, so it goes back towards Death Metal, but does not ignore the rock influence.
In 2007 "Rise To Ruin" was released, which kept the sound of "La Muerte", but had very contrary pieces in terms of speed. The opener, “Revolt”, is very fast in terms of speed, the second song, “Rise To Ruin”, for example, is again very slow. Such differences can also be found in the other tracks on this album. There are also strong contrasts here in terms of the structure of the songs: In contrast to many other death metal bands, Gorefest do not tear the pieces out with excessively fast or melodic riffs, but with moving, fast solos, which are usually backed by the typical rhythm guitar riffs .
In 2009 the band announced their renewed breakup.
Discography
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- 1989: Tangled in Gore (demo tape)
- 1990: Horrors in a Retarded Mind (demo tape)
- 1991: Mindloss (Foundation 2000)
- 1992: False (Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1992: Live Misery (7 "Live EP, Cenotaph Records)
- 1992: Promotape 1992 (Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1993: The Eindhoven Insanity (Live, Relapse Records / Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1994: Erase (Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1994: Fear (EP, Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1996: Freedom (CD / single, Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1996: Soul Survivor (Relapse Records / Nuclear Blast Records)
- 1998: Chapter 13 (SVP / Steamhammer)
- 2005: La Muerte (Nuclear Blast Records)
- 2007: Rise to Ruin (Nuclear Blast Records)
media
- Interview in Rockhard magazine , issue 223, 12/2005, page 66f.
swell
- ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points Books, Brooklyn, NY 2009, ISBN 978-0-9796163-1-0 , pp. 240 ( google.fr [accessed August 14, 2014]).
- ↑ CROM Carl: Quorthon On Bathory's First Two Albums: "We Had Said 'Hello' With The First One, Then With The Second One, We Were The Cocksuckers Of Satan". Metal Underground.com, February 17, 2012, accessed August 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson, Lisa Bergman: Bombs sprängde hål i väggen. (No longer available online.) Allt om Stockholm, May 19, 2010, archived from the original on August 14, 2014 ; Retrieved August 14, 2014 (Swedish).
- ^ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos , First Edition, Feral House 1998, ISBN 0-922915-48-2 , pp. 268f.
- ^ Garry Sharpe-Young : Deicide. (No longer available online.) MusicMight, archived from the original on March 16, 2014 ; accessed on August 14, 2014 .
- ↑ a b admin: Demiurg Interview. Metal Impressions, October 3, 2010, accessed August 14, 2014 .
- ^ Message on Blabbermouth.net.
- ↑ Chart tracking ( memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on musicline.de; Retrieved February 12, 2008
- ^ Gorefest in the Dutch charts, accessed on February 12, 2008